Re: Writing Vlan driver

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On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:51:22 +0800 "Tekale Sharad-FHJN78"
<FHJN78@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Erik Mouw wrote:
>> No need to write that, support for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN has been in the
>> kernel for ages.
> 
>  I need to write the vlan driver for Marvell chip(88e6060), fortunately
> it is supported in 2.6.28 kernel, but we are using 2.6.21.5 kernel,
> hence my task is to port the vlan driver from 2.6.28 to 2.6.21.5(my
> kernel version).
> 
> Could any one guide me on same?

I think you can make your life so much easier if you just used 2.8.28
and port your own changes to it. 2.6.21 is almost 2 years old, that's
considered "ancient" and "unsupported" in the Linux world.


Erik

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